Word: frankenstein
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...MAKE A MONSTER," rasps the copy for the latest assembly kit-a ic-in. Frankenstein's monster at 98^. "Get Him Now Before He Gets You." The makers of the Frankenstein monster (and other movie monsters to come) include a pious aside to parents: "In the opinion of reputable authorities, [these models] actually perform a valuable service for the child." When "certain fantasies" center about such a model, instead of being "improperly focused," they are released "in the manner of steam escaping through the safety valve on a radiator...
Conceivably, the American press could create a Frankenstein beyond the control of our responsible leaders. Alerting the public to the dangers of the Communist threat is one thing. Arousing the worst facets of American emotionalism is another. The difference is responsibility...
...first dividend on its $950,000 grant to U.S. composers for 18 new operas: the premiére of Norman Dello Joio's Blood Moon. Judged by critical response, Blood Moon was a bad bargain. "It does not send you out singing," complained the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein. The Examiner's Alexander Fried was more biting. Blood Moon, said he, hovered "between an ambitious grand opera manner and light-opera clich...
...going to say, 'Let's give em another one.'" Herm made his name in the entertainment world when he wrote and produced the legendary I Was a Teenage Werewolf for American International Pictures. He followed that success with several more--including I was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula, How To Make a Monster, and Horrors of the Black Museum...
...feel like Dr. Frankenstein. I taught her everything she knows, and she's damn smart." Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press. Once Roberts' girl Friday on the Press, Maxine last week was still scooping her way through town as his chief rival, barely noting a snippy feud that has Houstonians gabbing as much about the two columnists as about the people they chronicle...